Sec. 5. Claims relating to uranium mining
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Section 5(a)(1)(A)(i) is amended— by inserting
(I)after
(i); by striking December 31, 1971; and and inserting December 31, 1990; or ; and by adding at the end the following: was employed as a core driller in a State referred to in subclause
(I)during the period described in such subclause; and . Section 5(a)(1)(A)(ii)(I) is amended by inserting or renal cancer or any other chronic renal disease, including nephritis and kidney tubal tissue injury after nonmalignant respiratory disease . Section 5(a)(1)(A)(ii)(II) is amended— by inserting , core driller, after was a miller ; by inserting
(I)after clause
(i); and by striking all that follows nonmalignant respiratory disease and inserting or renal cancer or any other chronic renal disease, including nephritis and kidney tubal tissue injury; or . Section 5(a)(1)(A)(ii) is further amended— by striking or at the end of subclause (I); and by adding at the end the following: does not meet the conditions of subclause
(I)or (II); worked, during the period described in clause (i)(I), in two or more of the following positions: miner, miller, core driller, and ore transporter; meets the requirements of paragraph
(4)or (5), or both; and submits written medical documentation that the individual developed lung cancer or a nonmalignant respiratory disease or renal cancer or any other chronic renal disease, including nephritis and kidney tubal tissue injury after exposure to radiation through work in one or more of the positions referred to in item (bb); . Section 5(a)(2)(A) is amended by striking December 31, 1971 and inserting December 31, 1990 . Section 5(a) is amended by adding at the end the following: An individual meets the requirements of this paragraph if the individual worked in one or more of the positions referred to in paragraph (1)(A)(ii)(III)(bb) for a period of at least one year during the period described in paragraph (1)(A)(i)(I). An individual meets the requirements of this paragraph if the individual, during the period described in paragraph (1)(A)(i)(I), worked as a miner and was exposed to such number of working level months of radiation that the Attorney General determines, when combined with the exposure of such individual to radiation through work as a miller, core driller, or ore transporter during the period described in paragraph (1)(A)(i)(I), results in such individual being exposed to a total level of radiation that is greater or equal to the level of exposure of an individual described in paragraph
(4). . Section 5(b) is amended— by striking and at the end of paragraph (7); by striking the period at the end of paragraph
(8)and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following: the term core driller means any individual employed to engage in the act or process of obtaining cylindrical rock samples of uranium or vanadium by means of a borehole drilling machine for the purpose of mining uranium or vanadium. .